The Mexican government is currently offering a $2 million USD bounty for information leading to his capture.[2][3] In 2019, imprisoned Sinaloa Cartel operative Jesús 'El Rey' Zambada revealed that notorious Sinaloa Cartel leader Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman had issued a bounty for Ledezma's death after Ledezma ended the Juarez Cartel's alliance with the Sinaloa Cartel.[7] Ledezma is also suspected of orchestrating El Chapo’s brother’s killing in prison. Zambada also claimed that Ledezma was the only person who earned "an enormous hatred" from El Chapo.[7] At the time of his arrest in May 2020, it was reported that Luis Alberto “El Mocho” M. was at that point the leader of La Linea and that El Mocho's predecessor, who is also imprisoned, is named Ricardo Arturo “El Piporro” C.[8]
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Projects | - Coronado
- Delirium
- Gunrunner
- Shadowfire
- Southern Tempest
- Wildfire
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Operations | - Baja California
- Bishop
- Black Swan
- Blue Storm
- Chihuahua
- Community Shield
- Coyote
- Diablo Express
- Escorpión
- Fast and Furious
- Jump Start
- Kruz Control
- Lince Norte
- Michoacán
- Nuevo León-Tamaulipas
- Phalanx
- Quintana Roo
- Sinaloa
- Solare
- Terminus
- Wide Receiver
- Xcellerator
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Books | - Cartel: The Coming Invasion of Mexico's Drug Wars
- El Narco: Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency
- The Fight to Save Juárez
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